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Doesn't every version have gapless playback?

On one gapless album which I created myself, the typical tiny gap stands out horribly. Probably because I chose bad places for the gaps. No, there are no gaps in the audio, as I cut up a 70 min WAV file; unless EAC/lame added some.

Prior to v3, the only way to get gapless playback was to use "lame --nogap" and encode all the WAV files of an album in one invocation of Lame. AFAIK no GUI-based rippers could do that.

In v3, the firmware pays attention to the Lame "info header", which is added to all MP3s by modern versions of Lame (and to VBR tracks even by oldish versions). It also has heuristic silence-trimming, for non-Lame MP3s and for WMA.

Peter